Study what you're passionate about

Hands-on learning

From co-op to field schools, we offer many hands-on opportunities that take learning beyond the classroom. You could even participate in a summer European field school as part of a Germanic and Slavic Studies degree.

Research in action

Impassioned advocate comes home to UVic

PhD philosophy student Ryan Tonkin, now a Vanier Scholar, has always considered UVic his second home—especially when he didn't have one. He could have pursued his doctorate anywhere in the world and he chose UVic.

Open your mind, transform our world

The humanities and liberal arts are engaged with the complex, ever-evolving questions of what it means to be human. They speak to issues of human dignity, creativity, thought, justice, freedom and value amidst a myriad of people and places. We explore language, culture, technology and the environment, recognizing the richness offered by diversity, difference, distance and place.

The humanities equip us to make critical and difficult choices, to recognize the difference between what is right and what is easy, and to take responsibility for our choices.

Last week, winners of the Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Awards (JCURA) had the chance to exhibit their work as part of UVic's Ideafest. Dozens of students, including many from the Humanities, showcased posters displaying their findings to the UVic community and wider public.
Medieval Studies student Duncan Calveley investigated why the tombs of the Liao dynasty contained amber, while Gender Studies student Jacqueline Kittel's work examined whiteness and femininity in the cannabis industry.
“Through the JCURA opportunities that you're given you gain an idea of the most effective type of research to present to the public," says recipient Erin Donoghue Brooke, from the Department of English. "It gives you a better idea of how to package ideas for people who aren't necessary familiar with your field.”
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Photos from UVic Humanities's post

Happy International Women's Day from all of us in the Faculty of Humanities! Today, UVic History Department prof Elizabeth Vibert is in Halifax at Dalhousie University for the screening of the #UVic-produced documentary
The Thinking Garden. Next week, she'll travel to Jordan for the opening night of the UN Women’s Film Festival. The following day The Thinking Garden will be screened with Arabic subtitles at the Zaatari refugee camp, home to 80,000 Syrian refugees. For more on this amazing project about women making change, read our story in The Ring https://www.uvic.ca/news/topics/2017+thinking-garden-new-film-south-africa-field-school+ring